Month: October 2013

Hey friends, we wanted to share with you a short piece written by Radon friend Chase Abner about the upcoming Bob Dylan Cover Night on Nov 9.

Chase is hosting the show, and if the people like it, perhaps we’ll have more cover nights to come! Here’s Chase:

We were a bunch of 4th graders on a field trip singing at the top of our lungs to a battery-powered boombox as our school bus wound its way through the hills of Eastern Kentucky. The song? “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” by Guns N’ Roses. We probably listened to it 15 times that day. I remember feeling so rebellious. Guns N’ Roses certainly weren’t welcome in my parents’ house in those days. At the time, the music felt so edgy… so rock n roll.

What we didn’t realize, however, is that the song was actually written by a guy who was the rebel of our parents’ generation – Bob Dylan.

Admittedly, Bob Dylan will not top the list of many’s favorite singers. His legacy will always be songs. He’s a writer. And he’s a writer’s writer. And in that spirit, we at the RADON want to honor that legacy with a night of covers. The styles will be diverse. The songs will address everything from politics to love to faith and back. The common thread will be that they are songs both from and inspired by Bob Dylan’s body of work.

As always, we hope you can make it to the show, this is the first time we’ve tried something like this, so you’ll need to tell us whether or not you’d like us to do it again!

Also, for you metal heads, the Black Sheep Cafe is hosting a one day metal fest The End Is Here the same night. This will be the last show for very long time running Springfield metal band Pound for Pound.